The Russian Foreign Ministry justifies Stalin for making the pact with Hitler stating that “the agreement was a hard necessity for the Soviet Union, a forced and extremely difficult decision.”
Eighty-three years have passed today since the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, with Moscow to mention in her post that she helped advance the western border of the USSR by 350 km.
The Russian Foreign Ministry justifies Stalin for making the pact with Hitler stating that “the agreement it was a harsh necessity for the Soviet Union, a forced and extremely difficult decision.”
The agreement, guaranteed, emphasized in the announcement that the parties would not attack each other if one of them was involved in hostilities.
“Historians confirm that the Soviet leadership had no illusions about the prospects of the agreement they had signed with Germany and understood that a war was inevitable. It was a matter of gaining time. The agreement helped to advance the western border of the USSR by approximately 350 kilometers,” it is reported.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalls a statement by President Vladimir Putin about the pact in 2019:
“The Treaty between the Soviet Union and Germany was the last in a series of treaties signed by European countries that seemed interested in maintaining peace in Europe.
»The USSR agreed to sign this document only after all other avenues had been exhausted and rejected all proposals of the Soviet Union to create a single security system, in effect, an anti-Nazi coalition in Europe.
»Staying alone, the USSR had to face the reality created by the Western states. The partition of Czechoslovakia was cruel and cynical, in essence it was looting.’
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